Episodes
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This episode begins a more intensive phase of practical, down to earth tips on how to create a more satisfying, healthy, and HAPPY life.
We begin with a flaming squirrel incident that's actually a true story and move into science's top 3 tips for a Happy Life.
Join in the fun!
P.S. While taking a break from recording it appears that my cats contributed their own thoughts on the Sleep section I created. It is, in fact, gone! LOL
So here is the edited version and a few articles I hope you enjoy that might provide some historical sense about how we've viewed sleep as humans and some great research about how to catch the best winks possible every night.
Hope you enjoy!
https://vanwinkles.com/ancient-interpretations-about-sleep
https://www.livestrong.com/article/1012286-10-proven-tips-good-nights-sleep/
http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/interactive/timeline
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Whatâs Love Got To Do With Happiness?
Well, everything! But donât worry if youâre currently unlucky at love. There are lots of ways to love, according to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and there are many ways we can feel love in the next 15 minutes, regardless of whether weâre currently in a romantic, loving relationship or not.
Letâs talk about love in a broader way. Though, as F. Scott Fitzgerald says,âThere are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.â
We also cover Lovingkindness Meditation and do one together (clothing optional). ;)
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Welcome to this special Animal Edition of Considering Happiness!
In this fast-moving, âwild" episode, we digest exciting, prescient facts about the Animal Kingdom with light foray into old Hollywood. Weâll be time traveling to the Wild West, exploring the origin of the âgetting your goatâ expression, learning from Dogs, visiting Zebras in the grasslands and woodlands of Eastern and Southern Africa, and experiencing some more sultry hormonal sensations right before we stuff one more tool into our happiness backpacks. I did tell you this is the Animal Edition, didnât I! ;)
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Welcome to this special, Spicy Spring Fling edition of Considering Happiness!
For the next year Iâm committing to consider the Science of Happiness and Well-Being and then fill the airwaves with as many stories and seasons, faces and places of genuine happiness as I possibly can. To explore ways Iâve never thought of that I might be able to add to my happiness backpack. To learn how to smile more and fear less. To learn a million more ways or even just one more potent way to feel GOOD more often over time. Thanks for joining me!
In this fast-moving episode, weâre going to explore what makes us happy and WHY itâs been proven make you more money and friends. No, really!
Weâll also play a game of Happiness Jeopardy, consider some truly unique Spring Festivals ranging from the âcheesyâ to the spicy, and downright shocking, and weâll conjure surprisingly scientific Patronus Charms.
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Welcome to this special Ides of March Edition of Considering Happiness!
Crunching on a Caesar salad as I consider cutting edge, snackable, yet satisfying reports from that seemingly elusive world of Happiness.
For the next year Iâm committing to explore filling the airwaves with as many faces and seasons, nuances and places of happiness as I possibly can. To consider ways Iâve never thought of that I might be able to add to my happiness backpack. To learn how to smile more and fear less. To learn a million more ways or even just one more potent way to feel GOOD. Thanks for joining me!
In this fast-moving episode, we're going to explore the question of What IS happiness, actually? Why does happiness matter? And how can I experience more of it? We'll also time travel to Ancient China and Rome, listen to what dying people have to say, visit Well Seasoned Cannibals in New Guinea, discuss radical organ enlargement, explore some famous movie moments, and consider our first Tool for Creating Happiness.
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Considering Happiness
We live in challenging times in America⊠If youâre like me, some days just looking at the headlines can cause your blood pressure to spike.
An unquestioned, twisted golden rule of 24/7 fearful outrage now dominates digital media.
The underlying assumption seems to be that everything is horrible, so you have no right to happiness.
On October 1, 2017, I was spending the weekend away in exotic Las Vegas. I was staying on the 23rd floor of the Luxor Hotel, with a motion picture approved view of the mass shooting site where 58 people died and 500 were injured. As the police scanner app informed us of an ever-widening swath of shooting reports and bomb threats, I remember choosing to redirect my focus from the crazy scene below, where the shooter next door at Mandalay Bay was still at large, and to gaze up toward the perfectly luminous Harvest moon, remembering that the bloodshed happening below was not likely to rock her from her serene, beautiful orbit.
Desert animals and insects would most certainly be carrying on their hunting, foraging, and making little animals and bugs. Most of the world would be going on quite well only a few miles away. That gave me peace, a form of real happiness. It helped me to maintain my composure and even a vestige of humor, my go-to upper.
What if Happiness were a tiny, nearly forgotten muscle wedged somewhere between hope and giddiness that we could flex instead of the despair, outrage, and depression that have become way too familiar since 2017?
For your consideration, Iâm sharing this, my seasonal exploration into how other cultures describe their many different experiences of happiness, such as love, the seasons, food, friendship, sex, hobbies, music, and dance. We will be getting a broader context for considering how we can enjoy satisfying, even rapturous, ooey-gooey heartwarmingly powerful states of HAPPINESS.
I invite you to travel through the seasons with me as we explore ways to Happiness, both foreign and domestic.
Sincerely,
Lori Randall Stradtman
